| First Name: | Peter |
| Last Name: | Conneely |
| Rank: | Seaman |
| Regiment: | Royal Navy Reserves |
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| Place of Birth: | Fairhill Claddagh |
| Place of Death: | HMS Ascot |
| Date of Death: | 10-Nov-18 |
| Age: | 20 |
| Additional Information: | Killed in Action: 10 November 1918. Age 20. Seaman 8257A HMS Ascot. Royal Navy Reserves Supplementary Notes: (Killed during action with an enemy submarine off the Farne Islands). Son of Patrick & Mary Ann Conneely of Fairhill Road, Claddagh, Galway. Remembered: Portsmouth Naval Memorial – Hampshire United Kingdom (31). Ascot HMS has the dubious honour of being the last british loss of world WW1, one day before the armistice was signed. Torpedoed by UB-67 off the Farne Isles. The Admiralty makes the following announcement:- The paddle minesweeper ASCOT (1918) was torpedoed and sunk with all hands on the 10th inst (the day before the armistice was signed) by a German submarine off the north-east coast of England. Six officers, including two mercantile marine officers, and 47 men, including three mercantile marine ratings, lost their lives. [Hull Daily Mail, Wednesday, 20 November 1918]
CONNEELY, PETER (20), seaman (no. 8257A), HMS Ascot, Royal Naval Reserve, †10/11/1918, Son of Patrick and Mary Ann Conneely, of Fairhill Rd., Galway, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
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Royal Navy Reserve
HMS Ascot
HMS Ascot in colour.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial. (6)